Dealers in kindergarten supplies sell the rattan in different sizes, from No. 00, which is as fine as cord, [38] to No. 7 or No. 8, which is almost as thick as rope.
— from The Child's Rainy Day Book by Mary White

He noticed that the women-folk had evidently taken up with Cerise and her mother, and he could not [Pg 196] but wonder vaguely how it would have been if they could have seen the rooms in Duke Street, Leicester Square, and the picture of Uncle Simon tucked up and snoring in Cerise's little bed.
— from The Man Who Found Himself (Uncle Simon) by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

from Bertie, until at last Mabel refused to answer any more of Bertie's taunts, as they grew decidedly offensive; and, finding that she took refuge in disdainful silence, he consumed tart after tart with gloomy determination.
— from The Black Poodle, and Other Tales by F. Anstey

On the difference between the ancient and modern schemes, there are some ingenious, though perhaps scarcely tenable, remarks in Dugald Stewart's Philosophy of the Mind , vol.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle